Just Asking

How many beers does it take to paint a house?

Sitcom idea

I'm working on the pilot of a sitcom about a single father in Indianapolis.

It's called Hoosier Daddy.

A personal remark

He was filled with the sour milk of human kindness.

Excerpt:

Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn.
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.
Where is the boy that looks after the sheep?
Up in the hayloft with Little Bo Peep.

-- from Slightly Salacious Mother Goose

NIU shooting

I think one of the things that makes me saddest is that this was not unthinkable. The smooth way the university responded is a result of their having prepared for and practiced for just such an event.

Generalities

"All generalities are stupid."

--Michael B. Kaye
4.august.1978

Learning grammar

"What do we don't have?"

-- my daughter, age 4

A picture of money

I saw a man wearing a t-shirt with an oversized drawing of a roll of hundred dollar bills.

He had exchanged real money for a picture of money.

Bush on sacrifice

"I’m not going to make predictions about what 2007 will look like in Iraq except that it’s going to require difficult choices and additional sacrifices because the enemy is merciless and violent."
--President Bush
21.december.2006

By "additional sacrifices" I take it he means "further tax cuts".

Optimism or pessimism?

Some people say the glass is half-full, some say it's half-empty.

A cynic says, You call that a glass?

An engineer says the glass is twice as big is it needs to be.

New musical style

I'm developing a new musical style:
Death Calypso.

Minimalist blog

Someone said this is a minimalist blog.

Yeah.

Ce que vous croyez

It's always easier to believe a simple lie than a complicated truth.

Administration, First Law Of

If you pay someone enough money, he will think what he is doing is important, all empirical evidence aside.

Scorched-earth Christmas

I think the Iraqis are having a scorched-earth Christmas.

Of course, they're not the first. Nor will they be the last.

Happy Thanksgiving

To all of my zero-and-counting readers, Happy Thanksgiving.

It's the true American Holiday.

Bush on voting

"I don't believe it's over until everybody votes."
--President Bush
1.november.2006

By "everybody" I take it he means "the Supreme Court".

Learning grammar

"I was gonna give it to you back, but I didn't. Next time i will gonna give it to you back."

-- my daughter, age 3

Excerpt:

Jack Sprat could eat no fat
He wife could eat no lean
And so between the two of them
They licked the splattered spleen.

-- From Grand Guignol Nursery Rhymes

Chicago: a definition

"Chicago is not the third-largest city in America, Chicago is the largest Midwestern city in the world."

-- John Probes